Artist : Tim Bowness

Album : Flowers At The Scene

Release Date : 01-03-2019

Added : 10-04-2019

The releases of 'Tim Bowness' follow each other and after the very good 'Lost in the Ghost Light' in 2017 (see here), it's the turn of' Flowers At The Scene to take shape. He continues to offer us a style between pop and rock and this last album contains compositions less accessible than the previous one and it took me several listenings to draw all the richness, perhaps due to deeper melodies and sonorities more contemporary. As usual, he has invited an impressive number of artists from different backgrounds with a certain 'Steven Wilson' (see his latest live here) who participates to 'It's The World' which is well in the style of English. In general, the atmosphere is close to Tim's and Steven’s 'No-Man' project (see the album ‘Schoolyard Ghosts’ here) with rather melancholy titles but where classical instruments are not only accompaniments but fully integrate and bring the atmosphere of the title, as with the strings in 'The Train That Pulled Away' with the feeling of finding the tempo of the rails when on a train or the atmospheric 'Borderline', where the trumpet accentuates this sensation of weightlessness, or still 'Ghostlike', with this tension accentuated by the heavy and repeated rhythm section. In summary, 'Tim Bownes' invites us, with this latest album, to a beautiful journey filled with emotion and great musical richness, mixing several styles between art-rock and atmospheric and 'Flowers At The Scene' is recommended to all those who favor a calm and melancholy style...

Line Up / Musicians

Tim Bowness (Vocal) + Guests : Peter Hammill (Vocal, Guitar), Andy Partridge (Guitar), Brian Hulse (Guitar, Keybords), James Matheos (Guitar), Kevin Godley (Vocal), Ian Dixon (Trumpet), Aleksei Saks (Trumpet), Colin Edwin (Bass), David K Jones (Bass), Tom Atherton (Drums), Dylan Howe (Drums), Charles Grimsdale (Drums), David Longdon (Flute, Choirs), Steven Wilson (Keybords), Alistair Murphy (Arrangements), Fran Broady (Violin)